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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is nearing its final destination more than 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, where it will soon
From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie
This explainer is part of Quanta Magazine’s Origins of Life Week. Check back throughout the week for more stories about one of science’s biggest unknowns.
Scientists have proposed a new tabletop device to detect the subtle way Earth’s daily spin on its axis twists the space-time around it — an
Obesity is linked to a range of health problems — including heart disease, diabetes and early death — but it can be hard to know
A tiny brown mushroom found in Florida’s swamps is the first known fungus to contain both psilocybin, the chemical compound in psychedelic mushrooms; and amatoxin
Researchers in Florida unearthed a “dark magic mushroom” that boasts a combination of hallucinogenic and poisonous traits.
Physicist Stefano Martiniani uses a computer algorithm to design new materials that could help advance light-based computers.
The patient: A 45-year-old man in Italy The symptoms: The man went to the emergency room because he had a sharp pain in his lower-right
Engineers in China have built a new computer architecture they say can one day make up to a million artificial intelligence (AI) chips work as
In the 1950s, American geochemist Clair Patterson presented findings that showed Earth is around 4.55 billion years old . His evidence was based on lead
Photos of the CHAPEA Mission 2 crew are arranged around a boot print in the simulated Martian sand outside their habitat.
This explainer is part of Quanta Magazine’s Origins of Life Week. Check back throughout the week for more stories about one of science’s biggest unknowns.
Magnetic reconnection — the process behind the sun’s most violent outbursts — may have a counterpart in gravity. According to a new theoretical study, sheet-like
